input output error

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Jul 11 17:37:20 UTC 2007


On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:47:55PM -0400, hui xu wrote:
> I tried 
> 
>  fdisk -l /dev/sda, I got blank output
> 
> with 
> 
>   file -s /dev/sda /dev/sda, I got 
> 
> /dev/sda:  file: read failed (Input/output error)
> 
> with 
> 
>  /sbin/pvdisplay /dev/sda , I got
> 
> ERROR "pv_read(): read" no VAILD physical volum
> "/dev/sda"
> 
> 
> Doese these means my disk is broken so I have to buy a
> new one?

Sounds like either a disk failure, or an enclosure failure, or even a
USB cable failure.  Certainly worth trying to disk without the USB
enclosure to see if you can read your data that way (A new enclosure is
rather cheap if that is what broke, and a cable even cheaper).

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